1 The previously mentioned Simon, who had given information about the money against his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of these evils. (WEB) 2 He dared to call him a conspirator against the state who was actually the benefactor of the city, the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 4:1–2
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4 Maccabees 4:1–2
1 For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to an honorable and good man who once held the high priesthood for life, named Onias. After slandering Onias in every way, Simon couldn’t injure him with the people, so he went away as an exile, with the in… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 11:24–26
24 by taking silver, gold, clothing, and various other presents, and went to Ptolemais to the king. Then he found favor in his sight. (WEB) 25 Some lawless men of those who were of the nation made complaints against him, (WEB) 26 and the king did to him even as his predecessors had… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 11:10–12
10 for I regret that I gave my daughter to him, for he tried to kill me. (WEB) 11 He accused him, because he coveted his kingdom. (WEB) 12 Taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly seen. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 10:20–22
20 But Simon and those who were with him, yielding to covetousness, were bribed by some of those who were in the towers, and receiving seventy thousand drachmas, let some of them slip away. (WEB) 21 But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 14:36–38
36 So now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled forever this house that has been recently cleansed.” (WEB) 37 Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, who was a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one cal… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 4:42–44
42 As a result, they wounded many of them, they killed some, and they forced the rest of them to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury. (WEB) 43 But about these matters, there was an accusation laid against Menelaus. (WEB) 44 When the king ha… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 7:5–7
5 All the lawless and ungodly men of Israel came to him. Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest. (WEB) 6 They accused the people to the king, saying, “Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land. (WEB) 7 Now theref… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 5:22–24
22 Moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him who set him there; (WEB) 23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest, exalted himself against… (WEB) 24 … (WEB)
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